Niket Vinodbhai Joshi

2025-07-27T08:40:00.000-07:00

🔋 Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Global Energy Demand 🌍

As we move deeper into the 2020s, the energy market is undergoing a profound transformation. The global demand for energy continues to rise—driven by population growth, industrialization in emerging economies, and the electrification of everything from transport to heating. Yet, this surge is met with an equally powerful push toward decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization.

📈 Current Trends:

Global energy consumption is rebounding post-pandemic, with fossil fuels still dominating but renewables gaining ground.
Grid reliability and energy security are top priorities amid geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions.
Investment in clean technologies—solar, wind, hydrogen, and storage—is accelerating, but infrastructure and policy must keep pace.

🔮 Looking Ahead:

By 2030, electricity demand is expected to grow by over 25%, fueled by EV adoption and AI/data center expansion.
The energy mix will shift dramatically, with renewables projected to account for more than half of new capacity additions.
Markets will favor flexibility: smart grids, demand response, and energy-as-a-service models will redefine how we consume and value energy.

💡 The challenge is clear: meet rising demand while cutting emissions. The opportunity? To build a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable energy future.

Whether you're in policy, tech, finance, or operations—this is the moment to collaborate, innovate, and lead.

Let’s connect and share ideas.

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2011-11-24T00:37:00.001-08:00

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Understanding Fear!!!!!!!

2011-11-15T21:52:00.000-08:00

When we understand various types of fear, we will be able to deal with it

Lets try to understand what Internal Fear is? Here I am not going to talk much about external fears like fear of losing money, fear of being killed, fear of loosing job, fear of not having food to eat, fear of natural calamity, fear of wild animals etc. Do you have any more fears than these external fears? If we look within then we will realize how many fears we have inside us, how much troubled our internal state is, to what extent we are doing slavery of others, how much partantra we are. Till the time we do not do this exploration we feel that we are already swatantra or we do not have any such kind of fear within us. In this process of exploration we also begin to realize that the external fears which we have, which we face are the consequences of these internal fears only, which are residing inside a human being, to which he is not aware of, to which he has never paid attention, from which he has always been running away in one form or the other.What are those internal fears? Fear of losing acceptance of people around, fear of losing respect, fear of being wrongly interpreted, fear of losing trust of people around, fear of being considered “less”, fear of losing importance, fear of losing psychological security, fear of losing dear ones and many more. Do you feel that you have these fears? You might say no, but in reality you might find many. Till the time we do not do this exploration we feel that we are free from these fears and others have them and we keep judging them and criticizing them. With more and more exploration we begin to realize that we are no different from a rapist, terrorist, murderer, criminal, a office goer, a corporate leader, a labor or any other man. It just requires a bit more of exploration within. Lets talk about some internal fears in different sections.Fear in Relationships:-Generally what we call Relationships in general language are based on our
Attachments/Attractions. We make a image of other person is our mind. If that image suits/matches to our imagination of a good person then we start liking that person. With more and more time with that person dependence of our Happiness on that person keeps increasing. This what is Attachment. It always comes with fears. Fear of losing acceptance of other person, fear of change in thinking, feelings and behavior of other person towards us. As soon as it changes we get hurt and then blame other person that he/she breached my trust. We want his acceptance back on any cost. We want him to be same with us on any cost. We get angry if that doesn’t happen.This kind of fear is coming out of dependence. In such kind of dependence we are always uncertain about other person’s feeling, thinking and behavior towards us. We want consistency in other person’s feelings, thinking and behavior towards us in this case. If this doesn’t happen then we get hurt. This uncertainty, this fear, this contradiction within, these arguments which keep happening within us keep troubling us continuously.We are lonely inside. We want to get rid of this loneliness. We keep searching for somebody who can quench this thirst in us which is manifesting itself as loneliness. When we get that person we get attached. Parellely we get fears of loosing. When other person with whom we are attached changes with us, we get hurt. A feeling of opposition, hatred, jealousy start coming in us. We keep troubling ourselves.Fears of losing value:-Generally we recognize our value with association of something with us. If I have something which makes me valuable then I feel that “I am” if I do not have any such thing then I feel “I am not”. I like to feel that “I am” but it comes with several, several fears along with it. Like I say that I am beautiful, I am intellectual, I am intelligent, I am at a very high position, I am powerful, I am knowledgeable, I have contacts with many great people, I have good English, I am of a particular religion, I am associated with a particular thought etc. We recognize our value in association with something. We feel comfortable and good with those who give value to us for the thing for which we consider ourselves valuable and we feel uncomfortable with those who look down at us for the thing with which we recognize our value. Like if I feel that I am a knowledgeable person then those who also consider me a knowledgeable person, I feel comfortable and good with them. Those who do not I feel uncomfortable with them. I start getting a feeling of opposition for them. If they look down at me and show me that I do not know anything then I start feeling jealous, a feeling of hatred start coming into my mind for them, I even become violent. Similar may be the case if I recognize my value on the basis of say, power, beauty, money, intellect, contacts etc.If I meet a person who is “more” than me in the thing for which I recognize my value, then I start feeling “less” and I want to become “more”. This gives rise to a rat race, competition, jealousy, hatred and violence. Unfortunately we all are into it. All the religious wars, other wars, competitions, rivalries have their root cause in this.
What we also generally try to do is to use our “Will Power” to control this fear, but it doesn’t control it rather it creates an environment of suffocation within. Like I say, “I will not have fear of loosing value or I will not get attached now” but this doesn’t happen. “Will Power”, Suppression don’t control fears rather creates suffocation within.Consequences of Internal Fears:-All these rivalries, quarrels, wars, religious riots, altercations, oppositions, hatred, jealousy, competitions, violence are the outcome of this internal fear only. Due to this internal fear only we make an environment which causes external fears like wars between countries, insecurities in countries, wars and insecurities within the countries, lack of production, more and more of consumption, lack of assurance in continuity of production, lack of assurance in distribution, insecure environment, insecurity in job, insecurity in living, insecurity in relationships, lack of assurance in relationships, altercations in family, unhappiness within, fear within, insecurity within.
This all starts with this internal fear. What we are currently trying to do is to change the external environment to get rid of this fear, but in reality it is the internal environment which need to be changed to get rid of internal as well as external fears. Like what we do is we accumulate more and more weapons so that we are secure from other country, we accumulate more and more power and resources so that we have the assurance of security and resources needed in future. We make rules and regulations, law and order to control the society and individual to maintain harmony, we do division of property and several judicial activities in family to maintain the harmony and several more thing in which instead of making the place harmonious we are making it more and more fearful. At the level of individual we try to get associated with something so that we are valued by others and we become psychologically secure. Change has to come inside the human being and not in the system which human has made. Without the change inside the human being the change which is made outside is not going to be sustainable. It is not going to make a human being fearless.Escapism:-If we see ourselves then almost all our activities are happening for the sake of escaping from fear rather than to understand it. When we are lonely we go to some restaurant, to a movie, to some amusement park or to some other place where we feel we will have fun. We make new friends or we keep searching for somebody who can make us feel good to get rid of this loneliness which is residing within us and is killing us continuously. We leave the friends who are now unable to make us feel good and make new friends. We get associated with a new group, get associated with a new thought, new set of people, make a new guru, start reading new books and other things. Most of the time the thing which we are doing is the escapism from the fear. We try to substitute fear with a thing which can not be substituted by that and it rather gives rise to many other problems which we have already seen. We see that there is something missing in our lives which we do not know what that is and we search that thing in those things which can give us that. This is what is escapism.Cause of Fear and a word towards solution:-In one line it can be said that cause of internal fear in a human being is lack of understanding of him himself in him and ultimately this internal fear itself becomes the cause of all the external fears, insecurities, lack of peace, wars, world wars etc. Due to lack of understanding in a human being of him himself, he recognizes himself in association with something like power, position, beauty, intellect, contacts with others, others perception towards him etc. This is what becomes the cause of attachment, cause of wrong evaluation of oneself, ego in oneself and expectation from others to keep the evaluation consistent, right and good. When others do that a human being feels good other wise bad and start getting a feeling of opposition for other person. This feeling of opposition for other person comes due to lack of understanding of oneself only. This feeling of opposition within ultimately becomes the cause of violence outside, so it is the internal environment which needs to be changed in a human being.Ultimately the content of study for a human being is him himself. Due to lack self knowledge we blame others for this feeling of breach of trust, disrespect, opposition, hatred, jealousy and many others and then want to change them. This process leads to violence.In our entire education system we give only technical education, trained to compete, trained to become violent, trained for race, trained to become more and more successful and accumulate more and more. The more one accumulates the more is given respect, recognition. The more is one valued. Current education system is generating violent literates rather than responsible educated people. In this education the thing which is taught is, “How to earn a living?” but there is no education on “How to live?”. Effectively we training people how to make a knife without teaching them what it is used for and what is its purpose, so it is being used for murders.At this point it is clear that there is a need for increase in human understanding of himself. What is the content of this understanding? There are only two questions which a human being has in his life. What he wants and How can he achieve it?What does he want? Happiness, Prosperity, Relationships, Fearlessness in Society and Co-existence in Nature.How can he achieve it? With increase in understanding in every individual about Self, Relationships, Trust, Respect, Prosperity, Family, Fearlessness, Society and Nature. This entire thing need to be included in the course of study in education system.

11 Quick Actions You Can Do Today to Successfully Start Doing Work You Love

2011-06-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

11 Quick Actions You Can Do Today to Successfully Start Doing Work You Love (or Anything) - 2011-05-24 23:52:25-04

Written by Scott Dinsmore – Follow us on Twitter. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.”~Chinese ProverbI spent a few weeks fly fishing through Patagonia with my father in February. For a week of my adventure I stayed in a small fishing lodge deep in the Chilean bush. And by deep, I mean deep.I flew into Santiago in a big plane, then flew into Puerto Montt in a smaller plane, then flew into an airstrip along side a lake in a 12-person prop plane (the kind that has a per passenger weight limit). There we were greeted by two guys in an off-road van who drove us another three hours into the wilderness on a dirt road. That’s where our lodge was.The place was gorgeous. Everything perfect. So much so, you would forget you were 30 hours out of your comfort zone and probably at leaset a day from a hospital. There wasn’t a thing out of place.On our drive out I asked Marcel, the owner, how he got into the business. 12 years ago he left Holland to spend a year fly fishing around the world with nothing but a backpack, his wife and a fly rod (what else does a guy need??). As soon as he got to Chile he knew it was his next home. He spent four more months fishing every river, stream, lake and tributary within 100km until he found exactly where he wanted his lodge.Then he started building. That was 10 years ago. He didn’t even speak Spanish when he started.“But how’d you have a clue what was involved before you started” I asked as our van flew around a bend in a cloud of dust.He giggled as he handed back some trail mix, “I didn’t” he replied. “If I would have known what was involved, I never would have started in the first place. Do you have any idea how hard it is to build a full-service lodge with five-star food, with running hot water, 12 hours into the Chilean wilderness? I certainly didn’t. And I’m glad I didn’t.”“I just decided to start small. Then came the rest,” he added.Everything begins with the smallest start and the right reason.I hear from people everyday who say “I’d like to travel here or start this or try that, but…”There are a million and one reasons not to do something. There always will be. If you look for one, you’ll no doubt find it.But one good reason can beat down a thousand bad ones in an instant. All you need is one – one that matters more to you than anything.All you have to have is enough of a dream, a vision, a belief, so that you have the courage to take that first tiny step. Every step after that is easier. People start to get behind you.
Things start to work and suddenly you’re rolling.But you have to start!I cannot express this enough. As important as it is to think big, nothing happens until you think small.Building a 10,000 reader blog is unimaginable when you’re only subscriber is your mom. But think how easy it will be to grow 100%.The iPhone started with tinkering in a garage with leftover circuit boards.You’re new company can’t have 40 employees until it has one.You can’t find a wife until you go on a date.You can’t lost 100 lbs until you lose five.I don’t care who you are or what you’re planning to do. Every beginning is a humble one.Don’t over think it and don’t make the mistake of thinking the successful folks around you didn’t start from the same place. They did.Starting is really the easiest part.The first step always seems like the worst. It involves the most fear, the most unknown and the most energy. That’s why most people never take it.But even though we build it up in our head to the size of a overweight elephant, the actual first step, from a physical effort perspective, is probably the easiest part of the process. It might only take five or ten minutes to write the first email or have the first meeting.What’s a few minutes?Put enough of those together and all of a sudden the smallest of beginnings turns into something meaningful. That’s how a paragraph turns into the next best-seller. How a slab of concrete turns into a home. How a step turns into a marathon.Just this weekend I started work on my first book. On Saturday morning I sat down to a completely blank page. Do you have any idea how daunting that was? But thanks to a good friend’s advice, I started with a few lines. Took a break. Then added a few more. By the end of the weekend I had over 60 pages.Nothing happens until you start. Every beginning needs momentum! Start as absolutely small as possible. Instead of searching for reasons to wait, make it too easy not to begin.11 Ways to Start Really Small:1. Make a tiny list of tiny things. Think as small as possible. Look something up. Ask someone a question. Anything.2. Talk to someone who’s done it. Find a model. It helps tremendously to see a similar path before you walk yours.3. Read something about it. Find a blog post, news article or book chapter about someone who’s done it. Get the juices flowing.4. Make it fun. Look at office space, throw around name ideas, or grab a bottle of wine and sit down with your husband or wife and check out other websites in the space.5. Write about it. Expanding on a new invigorating idea is a ton of fun. Write a sentence. Then maybe another. Write for at least 10 minutes, but you don’t have to stop there. I keep an ongoing idea list in my journal – I love adding to it and makes for a great conversation piece at parties.6. Buy a domain name. Five minutes and $9.95 – easy and cheap!7. List out your reasons why it’s so important to you. What amazing things could happen if you do it? What will you miss out on if you don’t? Use the free Goal Setting or Find Your Why workbooks if you need to.8. Find your support. A stiff dose of courage and accountability makes for strong beginnings. Think of 2-3 people who will stand behind your idea. Buy them coffee and divulge your plan.9. Send a note to your boss (warning: this one’s extreme). How long does it take to write a two word email that says “I quit”? You might want to word it a little better but you get the idea. Or even better, if you have a good relationship (and you think your boss will be supportive), talk to them about your plan.10. Help someone. If you plan to offer a service (like teaching, coaching, consulting or web design) then start offering it to those close to you. Find someone in need of something you’re good at. Start helping. Giver’s high is amazing.11. Put a price on it. You’ll never get paid if you don’t ask for money. If you’ve already been helping people then at some point you gotta put a price on your goods. You’re worth something to someone, I guarantee it. It only takes an instant to change your price from $0 to something. Getting money for things you’re good at motivates. Simple as that.There is never a good time.And if you’re waiting for the right time to do one of the above, I suggest you stop. It won’t come. There’s never a good time to do any of the important things in life. I don’t care if you’re starting a business, having a baby, moving to a new town or trying to lose 100 lbs. Stop waiting. The right time won’t come. You have to start by starting.Then again you could always do it later. But when was the last time that happened? Marcel y Carolina - Living LegendsWhat have you been putting off?What do you want to do but don’t know where to start?Are you going to look back in five or ten years with 20 times more excuses and say you wish you would have started this or tried that? I hope not. And if you’re looking back now on a regret from years past, the good news is it’s never too late.Ray Krok started McDonalds at 52 (I hope you do something more constructive and healthy than start a McDonalds, but most importantly do something).There are no real excuses. Especially when you’re starting small.Find Your Purpose, Live Your Legend.One night I was out near the river reading The Alchemist. Marcel looked over and excitedly told me how powerful the book was. “I’ve read it four times” he nearly shouted.I smiled. This was my fifth. I had to laugh but I can’t say I was so surprised.After all, The Alchemist is a story of pursuing one’s Personal Legend. Your destiny. Your purpose as best as one can know it. What wakes you up excited and keeps you up at night. Marcel lives his legend everyday.He should be the rule, not the exception.Marcel and his wife Carolina have 4 cats, a kitten, a dog, a puppy, Lupina their baby lamb, about 8 pigs and an adorable two-year-old daughter, Elena. Everything they eat is local and organic and in season, grass fed. There is no other choice.When the winter gets too cold for good fishing, they latch up the lodge and travel the world for a few months and spend the summer with family in Holland. Their lodge, The Patagonian BaseCamp, is now known worldwide. It started with a guy with a fishing pole wandering around the woods in Chile.People called him crazy.Now thousands would kill to have what he’s built. The problem is they were not willing to do something he was…Begin.If you can start, I assure you, you can finish.Each steps makes you more committed to the last. You will find more and more reasons to make it epic as you go.It all stats with starting.Don’t intimidate yourself by the image of people living their dreams. Don’t focus on the huge gap you might have to cross to get to where they are. They had to cross it too. But they didn’t cross it in one day. It likely took a thousand little acts. Any one of which seemed insignificant at the time.A journey of a thousand miles still begins with a single step. Nothing’s changed.Don’t worry about not knowing about the future. No one does anyway.If you don’t start, how can you ever finish?“Making a decision is only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”~The AlchemistStart with a comment! What can you do this week (or right now) to get you at least slightly closer to a dream? Share at least one sentence in the comments below. Let that be the beginning. We’ll hold you to it! Take two seconds to share this on Twitter or Facebook with the links below. It might be all someone needs. Thanks!

PRANAYAM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

2008-05-25T21:12:00.000-07:00

Pranayam is the discipline of breath. The action of breath is in reality the process of life. It is a mode of breath restraint and comprised of the process of inhaling the breath (poorak), stopping it (kumbhak), and exhaling (rechak). The main object of pranayam is to acquire mastery of the vital forces acting within the body. It helps to ensure the arousal and liberation of the latent psychic energy in the organism. With the help of pranayam, we can transform cosmic energy into human energy, thus maintaining the equilibrium of the force within the body. It brings about a live transformation of consciousness in the entire arterial cycles, in the nerves. The energy to work is enhanced, even the fibers of knowledge are cleaned besides cure of all body ailments.

Pranayam exercises are excellent for relieving congestion, stimulating a torpid pancreas and bringing genuine improvement to all gastric complaints. These are able to affect the main systems of the body (nervous, endocrine, respiratory, circulatory and digestive) and ensure their harmonious and efficient functioning. Complete yogic breathing involves the abdomen, the middle part of the chest (thorax) and the upper part of the chest or collar bones (Clavicle).

The main techniques followed are :
Anulom Vilom or Nadi Sodhan Pranayam (Alternate breathing): This is one of the most important pranayams for establishing the equilibrium of the positive and negative currents bringing life to the body. It calms and purifies the nerves, helps stabilize the mind and increases the mental faculties . It helps cure certain serious types of headaches.
Ujjayi (Energy Renewing Pranayam) : This is ideal for those suffering from high blood pressure and coronary disorders. Low blood pressure is raised to a normal level, the endocrine glands (Specially the thyroid) are greatly stimulated. Digestive and pulmonary complications (e.g. indigestion, coughing, etc.) may be avoided by the practice of this exercise.

Kapalbhati (Breathing that revitalizes the body) : It is a respiratory exercise (exhalation) for abdomen and diaphram. It eliminates a large quantity of toxins contained in the body and clears nasal cavities and lungs. The exercise brings relief from asthma and tones up the body.
Bhastrika (belows) : It is a combination of Kapalbhati and Uijjayi and spreads warmth all over the body. It regenerates liver, spleen, pancreas and fortifies abdominal muscles.
Similarly, Surya Bedi to revitalize the nervous system, Sitali to refresh and other techniques are followed by ending into Shavasan (complete relaxation) for about 10 minutes to revitalize the whole body.

My City Ahmedabad

2008-03-25T21:11:00.000-07:00

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, founded in 1411 by Sultan Ahmad Shah on the eastern banks of the Sabarmati, grew larger and wealthier until dynastic decay and anarchy caused a decline and its capture by Akbar in 1572. Its renewed eminence under the Mughals ceased after Aurangzeb's death in 1707. The British annexed Gujarat in 1818 and the city's first cotton mills were opened in 1859-61. The city grew again and became the largest inland industrial centre in India. It was the temporary capital of Gujarat in 1960, until the state administration shifted to Gandhinagar in 1970. In 2001 the city was rocked by a massive earthquake that killed thousands of people, and in 2002 the city witnessed one of the worst communal riots since the partition; over a thousand people, mostly Muslims, were killed, allegedly with the tacit support of the ruling right wing Hindu nationalist party, BJP.